This may sound a little unfair. After all, a standard Microsoft installation would include something called Equation Editor. Suffice to say, it wasnt advertised in the promotional videos. Software like Matlab was considered vastly superior and had the added advantage that you could analyze the equations as well. Anyway, the good news is that Microsoft has taken a big step forwards with Office 2010 and its now possible to correctly display formulas in a pretty painless fashion.

These and many other reasons would surely prove to you why using electronic spreadsheets would do great things in your office. That is why if you or your employees are not that skilled with this type of software, then you should get a spreadsheet training today and start mastering this program.

The first in this series of four articles was How To Create Brilliant Spreadsheet- Planning Vs Implementing The 80/20 Split.